NW Canada summer field season report

The Historical Geobiology Lab recently finished up a successful field season working on Ediacaran successions in the Canadian Cordillera. In particular, we were happy to have several students from our SPODDS consortium (Stanford Program on Deep Sea Depositional Systems) out to help us better constrain depositional environments. In July, Tom Boag continued to investigate the paleontology and stratigraphy of the Rackla Group in the Wernecke Mountains of Yukon alongside Erik Sperling, Jared Gooley, and collaborators Justin Strauss and James Busch from Dartmouth College. We found a great number of new fossils and added significant detail to the basin architecture of the Rackla Group in the Wernecke Mountains. In August, Tom continued work further south focused on the Cariboo Group in the northern Cariboo Mountains of British Columbia with Zach Sickmann. This project is an integrated study focused on constraining the Ediacaran carbon cycle. Despite a second major wildfire season in British Columbia, we were able to complete all our work including aerial drone photogrammetry (using our new drone, Fritz). A special thanks to Alkan Air, Horizon, and Highland Helicopters for another summer of safe transport.